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. 2022 Oct 13;9:875242. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.875242

Table 3C.

Organizational willingness to adopt applications of AI for Diagnosis of eye diseases.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) Glaucoma Age related macular degeneration (AMD) Cataract
OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value OR 95% CI p -value
Age 1.023 1.004 1.042 0.02 1.036 1.016 1.056 0 1.021 1.002 1.041 0.029 1.018 0.998 1.038 0.072
Gender Female Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Male 1.158 0.877 1.529 0.301 1.527 1.148 2.031 0.004 1.403 1.055 1.865 0.02 0.828 0.619 1.107 0.202
Clinical experience Currently in training Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
<20 years 1.369 0.628 2.982 0.429 1.143 0.493 2.651 0.755 1.667 0.705 3.944 0.245 0.771 0.343 1.732 0.528
>20 years 1.221 0.501 2.976 0.66 0.860 0.334 2.212 0.754 1.904 0.729 4.972 0.188 0.936 0.372 2.357 0.888
Geographical region East Asia and Pacific Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Europe and Central Asia 1.245 0.693 2.234 0.464 0.968 0.528 1.775 0.916 1.656 0.915 2.996 0.095 0.486 0.237 0.997 0.049
Latin America & the Caribbean 1.801 1.043 3.109 0.035 1.242 0.735 2.098 0.418 1.829 1.077 3.106 0.026 0.737 0.427 1.272 0.273
Middle east and North Africa 0.721 0.288 1.806 0.485 0.306 0.099 0.948 0.04 0.530 0.185 1.521 0.238 0.347 0.099 1.221 0.099
North America 0.734 0.237 2.277 0.593 0.633 0.196 2.046 0.445 0.809 0.252 2.594 0.722 0.307 0.066 1.433 0.133
South Asia 1.688 1.046 2.724 0.032 1.102 0.687 1.766 0.687 1.295 0.810 2.071 0.28 1.118 0.697 1.794 0.643
Africa 1.733 0.324 9.272 0.521 2.734 0.504 14.826 0.243 0.453 0.084 2.454 0.358 3.202 0.594 17.247 0.176
Income level Resource-constrained Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Resource-abundant 0.772 0.545 1.095 0.147 0.864 0.604 1.236 0.423 0.712 0.498 1.018 0.063 0.723 0.502 1.040 0.08
Self-rated understanding of AI Very poor Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Below average 0.669 0.210 2.129 0.497 0.924 0.307 2.781 0.889 0.706 0.233 2.139 0.538 1.507 0.494 4.598 0.471
Average 0.535 0.179 1.600 0.263 0.637 0.226 1.793 0.393 0.508 0.179 1.442 0.203 0.985 0.344 2.818 0.978
Above average 0.436 0.145 1.305 0.138 0.573 0.203 1.618 0.293 0.475 0.167 1.351 0.163 1.028 0.359 2.948 0.959
Excellent 0.628 0.194 2.030 0.437 0.656 0.215 2.001 0.458 0.755 0.246 2.322 0.624 1.214 0.391 3.763 0.737

*Wherein “ref” denotes the reference category.

The color values are added to draw attention of readers to analyses for which p-value was < 0.05.